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Lincoln writes to members of
the German 7th Ward Club, of Chicago, and declines an invitation to attend a
July 5 Independence Day celebration. Lincoln explains, "[M]y engagements are
such that I cannot be with you." He offers a "sentiment: Our German
Fellow-Citizens:—Ever true to Liberty, the
Union, and the Constitution—true to Liberty, not
selfishly, but upon principle—not for special
classes of men, but for all men; true to the Union
and the Constitution, as the best means to advance that liberty."
A. C. Hesing to Abraham Lincoln, 29 June 1858, Robert Todd
Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC;
Abraham Lincoln to Anton C. Hesing, Henry
Wendt, Alexander Fisher, Committee, 30 June 1858,
CW, 2:475; Herman Kriesmann to Ozias M.
Hatch (copy), 6 July 1858, Photostat File, Manuscripts, IHi, Springfield, IL;
Chicago Daily Press and Tribune (IL), 7 July 1858, 1:3-4.